Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-04
Scandal in High Life.

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Miner. Interest is revived here to-day in
the Shepard divorce scandal by the filing
OF papers in tho case in support of the
wife's plea for a reopening of the case and
the rendering Of a decision in her favor for
separation and custody OF the child. It
will be remembered that Walter P. Shep-
ard CAM to this city about year ago and
early in the spring secured a divorce from
his Massachusetts wife, Sally S. Shepard,
and soon thereafter proceed to St. Paul,
where he was to wee Mrs. frankie Howell,
daughter of John L. Merriam, the we'll
known millionaire of that city. Hardly
had he registered at the Hotel Ryan when
he was served with a teleeraphic copy of an
order of the District Court here reopening
his case, on motion of his wife. He at
once returned to Helena to meet the new
issue. Mr.. Shepard is now acting as chief
clerk of the chief engineer Of the Northern
Pacific allied lines. The parties to this
suit are highly connected in Massachusetts,,
and the would-be second wife at St. Paul,
80 the wife's complaint, now on file in the
Court here, is of general interest. Here it
is:
THE wIFE's
In the District Court of the Third Judicial
District in and for the County of Lewis
and Clarke, Montana Territory.
/ Sally 8. Shepard,
Plaintiff,
Walter :. Shepard.
Defendant.
The plaintiff complains and alleges:
First, That she is a resident oil Somer-
vile, in the County of Middlesex, and CON-
monwealth OF Massachusetts. and has
lived in said Someryille since the autumn of
lSS That for many years prior to that
time she was a resident of Boston, in the
County OF Shuffolk, and said common
wealth.
Second, That she is informed that upon
certain proceedings that appear of record
IN yonr honorable court in the case of
Walter P. Shepard VS.. Sally S. Shepard,
defendant. a decree was entered March %,
1887, purporting to dissolve the marriage
between said Walter p. Shepard and Sally
S. Shepard and releasing the said parties
from the bonds of matrimony and all obi.
cations thereof and purporting to award
the custody of the child of said marriage.
to-Mit: Margaret Shepard, to said Walter
P. Shepard.
Third, That said decree was obtained
upon certain false and fraudulent repre-
sensations made by said Walter P. Shepard.
as the plaintiff is informed and believes.
First, That said Walter P. Shepard de-
posed and swore as appears by his affidavit
dated January Ia, 1887, on record in said
proceedings above referred to that the
residence of the present plaintiff could not
at the time of making said affidavit with
due diligence be ascertained, whereas, as
the plaintiff is informed and believes, her
said residence was then known to said
Walter P. Shepard or could with due
and
Second, Because Walter P. Shepard
alleged and swore in his complaint in said
proceedings, that said Sally s. Shepard
had willfully and without cause deserted
and abandoned said Walter S. Shepard
and has continued wilfully and
without cause to desert said Walter P. |
Shepard and to live separate and apart
from him without any sufficient cause and
reason. and against his will and without |
his consent. Whereas in fact said Sally S.
Shepard has never deserted or abandoned
Walter P. Shepard, and has never
lived apart from him except as compelled
to do so by his gross habits OF intoxica-
and his i'll treatment of her as herein.
after stated, and has always been ready |
and willing to live with him, provided he
himself toward her in accord
with his marital obligations.
Third, That the plaintiff, Sally s. Shep-
ard, and the defendant, Walter P. Shepard,
we're married at Boston, Massachuset ts, on
The sixteenth day of February, 1881, and
ever since have been, and now are. hus-
band and wife.
Fourth, That they lived together as
husband and wife from February II, 1881